Questions tagged [desktop-background]
A desktop background, or wallpaper, or just background is a digital image used as a decorative background on the desktop. Use this tag for questions regarding either the image or solid color displayed on the desktop background. DO NOT use this tag for questions about the background of specific applications. In such cases just use the application's tag.
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Change Unity wallpaper in Ubuntu 18.04
In previous Ubuntu releases, the user was able to modify the Unity wallpaper in the System Settings programme (Appearance panel). This action no longer has an effect on Ubuntu 18.04.
How can I ...
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Is there any way to set a photo as wallpaper with scrolling,zooming permission?
I have set world map as my desktop wallpaper,so that I can learn about the geological location of any country easily.Because when I come to my desktop or restart my laptop I have to watch the map at ...
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Normal wallpaper not appearing; only getting greeter ("welcome") wallpaper
Having made no changes to my system, I booted/logged-in today to an odd behaviour: the wallpaper I see at login persists into the session. I have a wide image I use to span two monitors, but the "...
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Change background of encryption password loadup screen
I'm looking projects for things involved in Ubuntu. I find the environment of the screen to which you give your full disk encryption passphrase to be bland and would love to change it. Is this an ...
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How can the X root window be seen instead of the Unity desktop?
I would like to be able to see the X root window instead of the Unity desktop. This could be for the purposes of using such programs as Xphoon, which fill the X root window with graphics. How can ...
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Can change background only from Gnome, not from Unity
I just upgraded my Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10 and I see when I right click on the desktop and click on change desktop background, all I get is the system settings dialogue and not the change desktop ...
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Can I make the lock screen image span two monitors?
I've got my desktop background spanning two displays, and I want the lock screen to show the same thing. Can I set the lock screen to span just like the desktop?
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Can someone explain how Ubuntu manages wallpapers?
I am confused about how Ubuntu stores user-selected wallpapers.
I have some pictures I use as wallpapers. We'll call them walla and wallb. Both originate from an encrypted drive that is not ...
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Is it possible to have a different background on mutliple displays-Lubuntu?
I am a casual Linux user here, so my knowledge is limited.
The default Lubuntu background is stretching itself across both of my displays. I followed the directions to install stitchwp here: How to ...
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Wallpaper / background folder in 20.04
I need to deploy some company backgrounds to several desktops and laptops running Ubuntu 20.04.
I want to do this via a script, and not via each user manually adding one-by-one.
Adding to /usr/share/...
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Ubuntu XFCE LightDM - login screen background mix-up on multiple monitors
I'm running UbuntuStudio 19.10 with XFCE and two monitors.
$ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
[greeter]
background = /home/ganga/Google Drive/Photos/Wallpaper/Subway.jpg
font-name = DejaVu ...
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Applying gif as wallpaper
I want to know if there any way by which we can apply a .gif image on our desktop as wallpaper I am using Ubuntu 17:10. I tried applying the gif as wallpaper but it was not working as it is supposed ...
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Why does Ubuntu 18.04 LTS load default wallpapers before user set wallpaper?
I'm running 18.04 LTS, and I've changed both my desktop wallpaper and the login screen wallpaper to a custom image. However, when I boot my computer, The login screen will load and display the default ...
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Why does every 4k wallpaper get lower resolution after logging in?
So I have a 4k screen, and when I set a 4k wallpaper it seems to be a lower resolution Full HD maybe. This is especially noticeable when I come to the login screen it's crystal clear 4k, and then ...
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multiple folders for desktop background
I have a rotating background on one of my less used machines. With all the windows minimised it acts very well as a digital picture frame.
However my picture library is is in multiple folders. The ...
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How to set webcam video as desktop background?
I use a webcam to monitor inbound traffic, etc. for my office and would like to be able to set my desktop background to be a live feed from my webcam on my secondary or both monitors. How would one ...
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unity-greeter login background won't change according to the user that is highlighted
I use Ubuntu 12.04.
Recently, I change to use another Accounts Service which could remove certain users from the graphic login screen of unity-greeter. I downloaded source code from a branch of
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Double thumbnails after adding custom wallpapers to /usr/share/backgrounds
I have followed the advice in various posts to this forum on how to get 12.04 to display my own wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds. None worked I have subsequently established that 12.04 uses file ...
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Wallpaper only shows up after booting from USB
After I boot my PC with Ubuntu 12.04 from USB drive, it only shows the wallpaper.
I'm able to access the terminal, and the system files through making a folder.
I tried doing the unity --reset but ...
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Get the color of a cell through a LibreOffice Calc formula
I would like to get the color (background or foreground) of a particular cell in a formula (in LIBREOFFICE CALC) so that the result depends on that color.
I would be grateful for tips on how to ...
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GNOME 40 in Ubuntu 21.04 does not show desktop wallpaper image
I installed GNOME 40 on Ubuntu 21.04 using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shemgp/gnome-40 && sudo apt update
sudo apt install mutter gnome-shell gnome-session fonts-...
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Cannot draw-user-backgrounds on greeter, Mate 20.04
Fresh install of Ubuntu Mate 20.04.1. Issue did not exist on earlier Mate 20.04 version. I have been running multiple users on Ubuntu for 10+ years (mostly vanilla flavor) and have never had this ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 screen saver background?
May I change the Ubuntu 20.04 screen saver background ? I do not see any option to do so.
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Password protect the process of changing wallpaper
I know this question has been asked before here, but that solution didn't worked for me.
I have some quite weird requirements, I need to prevent the process of changing wallpaper in Ubuntu. What I ...
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What is the symbolic link "ubuntu-default-greyscale-wallpaper" used for?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.
When I do this:
ll /usr/share/backgrounds/
I see this link:
lrwxrwxrwx ... ubuntu-default-greyscale-wallpaper.png -> Beaver_Wallpaper_Grey_4096x2304.png
Why is this link ...
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KDE Plasma's Picture of the Day to Set Wallpaper not working
I try to set Bing's Picture of the Day as default Wallpaper.
It did not work as expected.
The other provides
My machine info:
$ neofetch --stdout
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OS: Ubuntu 19.04 x86_64
Host: ...
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my video wallpaper is not autostarting
This is a summary of my attempts from how do I make this gif into a wallpaper from Ubuntu Forums:
I'm running Lubuntu 18.04.
After deciding that I want to use a video as my wallpaper, I got my window ...
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Kubuntu Plasma Wallpaper reverts to default on bootup
After a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04 (due to having to reformat the OS drive) my chosen wallpaper, not part of the distribution, reverts to the default that is part of the distro. When I was running ...
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User backround/wallpaper on login screen?
To make it short: Canonical had to disable the user's background/wallpaper on the login screen due to security issues (I can't find the related security USN article anymore).
There are plenty of ways ...
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How to change lock screen background and keep the wallpaper unchanged
I am on Ubuntu 16 and I want to change the lock screen background. I don't want by wallpaper to be changed.
I have tried this but it only changes the login screen wallpaper. I want the changes to ...
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Where can I find default noisy color backgrounds?
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS version.
I want to change login screen background to as like my lock screen background. I know how to change login screen background but I can't find the default color ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - how to play a sound from script run from webservice, in background
I am a developper, and have configured a server on ubuntu 16.04, running web services.
Those web services are calling some script file locally
the script is doing some task, and should play a sound ...
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How to make a tilda screen always on back as part of wallpaper
I'm using tilda on 17.10 in order to create a terminal as part of my wallpaper. I have most of the graphics down (a fitting color scheme, transparent background etc. ). However one thing I can't get ...
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Creating your own custom wallpaper that changes at regular interval
/usr/share/background/xenial.xml has xml syntax to change wallpapers, which specifies specific UTC/local day time to change wallpaper.
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Ubuntu 16.04 black screen wallpaper
( Sorry for any mistake, english isn't my native language )
Same problem as Ubuntu 16.04 wallpaper under black screen, after login (unity 7.4.0).
Yesterday after I setup one of my hd partitions to ...
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Can't change wallpaper on XFCE
everyone! I'm running Xubuntu right now but I can't get to change the wallpaper. I've tried through Settings and from right clicking on an image but the wallpaper never changes. If there's any log you ...
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Unity bar changing colour without request
UPDATED: I found that this happenes whenever I run the sudo -i nautilus command.
The Unity bar is changing colour without my request. I am not changing the background (I know it automatically ...
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having problem lauching "variety" wallpaper changer
i have a software named "variety" installed on my ubuntu 16.04 version.
in the preference section of this software i have selected to enable it with the system startup.
now the problem is sometimes ...
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how do I change only my lockscreen wallpaper?
I want to have two separate wallpaper, one for my login screen and another for my desktop wallpaper, on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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How to disable default desktop background picture module with third-party window manager?
I installed latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, then installed IceWM and set it as a default window manager. Everything works just great, IceWM's background picture is set in the config and is displayed properly,...
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Using Gifs as Wallpaper on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
So I found this program called LiveWallpaper that has a variety of Gifs to use as Wallpapers and I think it's alright... But I want a bit more variety and was hoping there's a way to either add more ...
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Desktop Wallpaper not updating in Ubuntu 14.04
The wallpaper of my desktop is not updating.
The wallpaper updates on the lock-screen page as well as the small windows of workspaces seen when viewing all workspaces. However, the background of ...
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How is the default auto-switching wallpaper in Unity made? (15.10)
You all know, when you go to System Settings > Appearance and look at the available background images, this looks like the screenshot below:
The third background icon has a clock symbol on it and ...
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How to recover the background, or wallpaper, folder?
I use Lubuntu 15.10 (upgraded from 15.04).
Because some reason, I don't have the wallpaper, or background, folders to the desktop, now. There is no any folder with that names on my PC.
How can I ...
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how to change ubuntu 15.04 lightdm greeter wallpaper size?
i was wondering if i can change the size of the background i have selected in lightdm.conf
after installing lightdm-gtk-greeter
sudo apt-get install lightdm-gtk-greeter
then editing the ...
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How to fix low-resolution wallpaper?
Whenever my computer starts and I log in, the desktop wallpaper loads at half resolution. Everything else is native resolution, and if I reselect the wallpaper it loads at full resolution. It's JUST ...
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Create a live wallpaper?
I've gotten live wallpapers to work, but I'd like to create one now. I thought I'd ask here before I started delving into someone's PPA code.
Are they OpenGL based? (I assume they are)
Is there a ...
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Why is there no simple method for using animated GIFs as a background?
I've seen multiple tutorials on it, but none of them are very easy. They all involve multiple scripts and ppas (not that there's anything inherently wrong with that).
This is an issue I've been ...
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How can I automatically select a new background when my external monitor disconnects?
I have this image:
Currently, this is stretched across two monitors (connected via VGA) and it works perfectly. What I want to be able to do is, when I disconnect my monitor, be able to switch to a ...
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Change folder background color and text color in Ubuntu 14.04
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to change folder background color from default white to deep gray and text color from default black to white.
How can I do that operation?